Cardinal Schonborn on 'Amoris Laetitia' | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Chaput sees God as an Ogre and the rules as a way to avoid damnation, rather than to live life. Schonborn seems to be going beyond that, as does Francis and as did St. John Paul, although Chaput and Rigali did not understand.
I would quibble with Schonborn on insiriation It comes from what is handed down and what is received from the past - but it also comes from the relationship with the Spirit here and now. In that way, everyone is competent in the natural law that applies to them. While the guidance of the Church can be helpful, it is not the end but the beginning. The moral law is not a preparation for the next life but a guide to this one.
That Schonborn states that AL is about bringing the Church more toward reality is good, although it was not good to say that doctrine should not be adjusted officially rather than on a case by case basis.
One last thing - there is more to a marriage than sex - whether it is an original sacrametal marriage, a sacramental remarriage or a sacramental gay marriage (a marriage is sacramental when two people fully give themselves to each other before God, priest optional). It is certainly not the property transaction of traditional marriage (which is why adultery was like stealing - a mortal sin - mortal because you forfeited your life as punishment) - but a mutual giving of each other's lives. Sometimes that goes awry and people separate - but the need for union - way beyond sex - remains. It is how we were created/evolved.
The thoughts and writings of clerics will never be able to revoke that - and they won't if we don't let them. The civil power of the Church is gone in most places, so what they say about divorce and remarriage is inconvenient at most - it is not controlling in law - which is about right.
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